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While the tech landscape continues to shift during this time of economic uncertainty, current conditions present a unique opportunity to revamp software engineering hiring strategies. I explored them with an incredible panel of technologists during a LeadDev Deep Dive Webinar about hiring engineers in 2023. The virtual event featured panel moderator Sonal Mehta, Director of […]

Seattle, WA – Karat, the world’s largest interviewing company, released its third annual Tech Hiring Trends Report today. Set against the backdrop of a volatile economy and wave of new AI-driven innovations that are creating new opportunities and challenges for businesses, this year’s report shares insights and best practices based on a survey by The […]

The recent webinar, “Harnessing AI and the future of tech hiring,” featured an enlightening discussion about the future of generative AI, or genAI, in software development and engineering hiring. Moderated by Scott Bonneau, EVP of Product and Operations at Karat, the webinar brought together industry leaders Sagnik Nandy, CTO at Okta, and Eddie Zhou, Founding […]

ChatGPT’s original demos included some tantalizing examples of the model producing Python code from a simple natural language prompt. Since those initial examples, we’ve received many questions about what this means for technical interviews like the ones we conduct. Most commonly, we hear candidates ask, “Can I use ChatGPT in my interview?” But I think […]

Recent market volatility and tech layoffs have created a unique landscape for companies hiring top tech talent. Industries that were previously the top choices for job-seeking software engineers have been hit hard; while large enterprise non-tech companies have become increasingly desirable destinations. This has resulted in a discernible shift in the job market and a […]

Last month, Karat’s data and insights team ranked the top cities in the U.S. for technical hiring. These rankings covered the metro areas with the highest concentrations of software developers scoring in the top quartile of all global coding scores in technical interviews. Unsurprisingly, the greater Seattle Area and San Francisco Bay Area (including Silicon […]

While many companies use automated coding tests as the first step of their software engineering interview, recent developments in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) will challenge this entire system. On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released a research version of their new AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT. This chatbot has the ability not only to answer users’ questions but […]

2022 represented a shift in the tech hiring landscape. Tech layoffs and hiring freezes produced an influx of high-performing software developers on the market. Talented engineers started to prioritize the security of larger enterprises over the hypergrowth segments, driving up close rates in industries like financial services, insurance, and telecom. And despite high-profile return-to-office mandates, […]